This study provides a comparative evidence of global non-oil commodities export competitiveness. Analytically, this study employs descriptive statistics to highlights and overview the global non-oil commodities export competitiveness. The study used the reports of the world competitiveness index, world merchandise exports and imports by commodity, world economic forum ranking and the African industrial competitiveness for the comparative analysis. The findings show that United States, Singapore, China, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Netherlands are the most competitive economies in terms of non-oil commodities export, while, Mauritius, South Africa, Morocco, Seychelles, Tunisia and Algeria are the most competitive economies given the Africa ranking. The study presented significant recommendations: product quality, production capacity, export capacity, export market shares/size, market access and technological upgrading and innovation dynamic are considered as the main pillars that determine countries non-oil commodities competitiveness in the global market towards economic growth.
Keywords: Comparative Analysis, Global, export competitiveness, non-oil commodities
